Members
Senate
Senator Rick Billinger, Vice-chairperson
Senator Larry Alley
Senator Michael Fagg
Senator Marci Francisco
Senator Carolyn McGinn
House
Representative Troy Waymaster,
Chairperson
Representative Susan Estes
Representative Shannon Francis
Representative Kyle Hoffman
Representative Vic Miller
Representative Brandon Woodard
Staff
Kansas Legislative Research Department
Dylan Dear
Shirley Morrow
Fiscal staff
Office of Revisor of Statutes
Jill Wolters
Tamera Lawrence
Nick Myers
Study Topic
The Committee is directed to:
- Study state employee compensation (legislative charges and earlier study noted);
- Pursuant to 2024 HB 2551 (Section 10), an interim study committee is established to review a market rate study on employees of the State Board of Regents and Washburn University and also review the comprehensive studies conducted pursuant to Section 145(k) of 2024 SB 28;
- Pursuant to 2024 SB 28 (Section 145(k), the Secretary of Administration, in consultation with the Director of Personnel Services, shall conduct a comprehensive study of market pay and benefits of job classifications in both the public and private sectors. Further, the State Board of Regents shall conduct a comprehensive study of market pay and benefits of professors and employees at both the public and private postsecondary educational institutions. Such studies shall be submitted on or before January 13, 2025, to the House Committee on Appropriations and the Senate Committee on Ways and Means;
- In 2022, a special committee was authorized to study state employee and board member compensation. This committee was authorized to study state employee compensation in these areas: state compensation as compared with compensation for other public sector and private sector employees, using market studies prepared by the Department of Administration; continued use of classified and unclassified service; compliance with existing Kansas statutes regarding state employees; other states’ employment systems for comparison with the Kansas system; options to tie compensation to performance reviews; and other duties as determined by the Chairperson related to state employees and the state employment system.